On 9 January 2012 10:49, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: >>> And as of kernel-2.6.38.2-4.mga1 there has been some cleanups and addons >>> for >>> xen: >>> >>> There is now a kernel-xen-pvops that also should work as dom0. >>> >>> Now this is mostly upstream kenel.org code so its not as fully >>> featured as the old kernel-xen. You can see the features listed here: >>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps. >>> >>> There is one exception: our 2.6.38 kernel has xen-netback backend driver >>> added. >>> >>> So those of you that have been using xen, please test atleast the >>> following: >>> >>> - check that kernel-server still works as a xen guest >>> - try to use kernel-xen-pvops as dom0 and see how it works >>> (you can also try to use kernel-xen-pvops as a normal xen guest) >> >> >> Doesn't that mean that when running in XEN, the installer shouldn't >> pick kernel-server >> instead of kernel-desktop? (since we've no dom0 support in the later) >> Or even kernel-xen-pvps if there's no HW support for virtualisation? > > If 'running in Xen' means 'running as guest', you don't need any special > kernel for hardware virtualisation, and just a kernel with Xen support for > paravirtualisation. The dom0 support is only needed for the xen host. Which > means the installer kernel itself should have xen support to be runnable in > any context.
Either we should restore alt1 in installer or we should enable DOM0 support in desktop kernel Then we sh
